Subway is suing the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. over a television report last month that claimed its chicken was only 50 percent poultry. The Milford, Connecticut-based fast food chain is claiming $210 million in damages resulting from the exposé, which alleged that the other 50 percent of its chicken products was soy.

“Despite our efforts to share the facts with the CBC about the high quality of our chicken, and to express our strong objections to their inaccurate claims, they have not issued a retraction, as we requested,” Subway told the New York Post on Thursday.

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“Serving high-quality food to our customers is our top priority, and we are committed to seeing that this factually incorrect report is corrected.”

In late February, the CBC, along with Trent University researchers, showed that Subway's oven roasted chicken was full of soy fillers using DNA tests.

The same test discovered that other fast food chain chicken products contained about 85 to 90 percent chicken, in contrast to Subway's 50 percent. Five orders of Subway's chicken strips and five roasted chicken pieces were tested - the roasted chicken contained an average of 53.6 percent chicken DNA and the strips contained 42.8 percent.

Earlier this month, Subway conducted its own lab tests - claiming its chicken contained only small amounts of soy and calling the CBC report "stunningly flawed."